From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: markdown export errors on headers [9.0.9 (9.0.9-82-gb862c2-elpaplus @ /home/fommil/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170814/)]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:24:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vakxr1rd.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h8whpp80.fsf@gmail.com
Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
> Loris Bennett writes:
>
>> Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>>
>>> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> I didn't know about this function either. Is it correct that the org
>>>> parts of 'org-plus-contrib' shadow the whole of 'org', e.g.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/org
>>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org-install hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/org-install
>>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-mscgen hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/ob-mscgen
>>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org-archive hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/org-archive
>>>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-tangle hides /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/ob-tangle
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> plus hundreds of similar shadowings?
>>>
>>> That's shadowing the Org files distributed with Emacs; you want that. :)
>>
>> D'oh, I copied the wrong bits. This was what I was wondering about:
>>
>> ...
>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ox-md hides /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ox-md
>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-lilypond hides /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ob-lilypond
>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-ruby hides /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ob-ruby
>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/ob-js hides /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/ob-js
>> /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170828/org-crypt hides /home/loris/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20170828/org-crypt
>> ...
>>
>> M-x list-packages shows 'org-plus-contrib' as installed and 'org' as a
>> dependency required by
>>
>> ox-twiki-20170803.1339, org-sticky-header-20170422.2135, org-dotemacs-20151119.1022
>>
>> So I guess the above packages should allow 'org-plus-contrib' as an
>> alternative requirement to 'org', but currently require only 'org', so I
>> end up with both installed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>
> This is an artefact of having the two packages. The package system does
> not support alternatives. I have posted a few times regarding this. I
> don't think it does any harm, but many people will find they have both
> org-plus-contrib as well as org installed. The main draw back is that
> updates can take longer due to downloading org twice.
>
> I and others have asked a few times why the packages are structured in
> this way, but nobody seems able to provide the rationale. Personally, I
> think we should just have an org package and an org-contrib package
> which depends on the org package.
>
> Tim
>
So is there a specific reason why there is no 'org-contrib' package
without 'org'?
Cheers,
Loris
--
Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-05 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-19 9:45 Bug: markdown export errors on headers [9.0.9 (9.0.9-82-gb862c2-elpaplus @ /home/fommil/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170814/)] Sam Halliday
2017-08-19 9:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-08-20 14:47 ` Sam Halliday
2017-08-20 15:07 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-08-20 18:10 ` Sam Halliday
2017-08-20 20:23 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-08-21 0:40 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-08-21 17:32 ` Sam Halliday
2017-09-02 2:48 ` Adam Porter
2017-09-02 3:01 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-09-02 3:30 ` Adam Porter
2017-09-04 6:03 ` Loris Bennett
2017-09-04 22:43 ` Adam Porter
2017-09-05 6:21 ` Loris Bennett
2017-09-05 7:41 ` Tim Cross
2017-09-05 8:24 ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2017-09-08 10:13 ` Adam Porter
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